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Roger Federer suffered another shock early defeat at a grand slam as he crashed out of the US Open in the fourth round against Tommy Robredo.
Two months after he lost to Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round at Wimbledon, Federer was beaten 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 6-4 by a man he had not lost to in 10 previous meetings.
The defeat continues a miserable season for the 32-year-old from Switzerland, who has dropped from world number one to number seven in less than 12 months.
It also means there will be no first meeting at Flushing Meadows between Federer and Rafael Nadal, who were seeded to meet in the quarter-finals.
Robredo had to save set points to avoid being taken to a decider by British qualifier Dan Evans on Saturday night but he was simply too solid against an error-prone Federer.
How much difference a late change of court made will never be known, but Federer never looked comfortable with his movement in humid conditions.
A long rain delay prompted US Open organisers to move the match from Arthur Ashe to Louis Armstrong, a court Federer had not played a match on for seven years.
Robredo was a break ahead twice in the opening set and, although Federer pushed him to a tie-break, it was dominated by the Spaniard.
The Swiss was making odd tactical decisions, rushing to the net at the wrong moments and making too many unforced errors.
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text: Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat What are some of the best move combos in Pokemon you have found? 131 votes I breed pokemon in the game and am pretty good at IVs and EVs and such. I have thought of a few good tactics, such as Safe Guard and Outrage/Petal Dance/Thrash (avoids confusion ailment) Mimic and Imprison (permanent Disables last move) Swagger/Flatter and Psych Up/Haze (either gives you upped stats or resets theirs) Defense Curl followed by Roll Out (makes roll out stronger) Rain Dance and Thunder (Thunder never misses) Belly Drum and Rest (works best with a chesto berry. Maximizes attack) Sunny Day and Solar Beam (solar beam no longer needs to charge) Endure and Flail/Reversal (makes the attack moves really strong compared to normal) What are some of the best move combos that you have found so far? :D Explain your choices, and why they make good combos. Please read all the answers before posting, to avoid duplicate answers. Yes, all 100+ of them. And no full on movesets either, there are separate questions for that :-) moves combos asked Apr 28, 2010 by uberchrisp edited Apr 7 by Pokemaster Show 24 previous comments One more flaw is if the move is like rock blast or ice shard and can break sturdy. commented Jun 4, 2013 by JarJar~ That is true. commented Jun 5, 2013 by Mega Evolution Guru We already have that combo listed. commented Jun 5, 2013 by Nindzya Oh. Thanks. (So it *is* a "combo"!) commented Jun 5, 2013 by Mega Evolution Guru Wow I never thought this would pass 110... commented Jul 1, 2013 by Flare Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 168 Answers 1 vote Double Battle. and Have Zapdos have the Ability Lightning-rod and Gyarados Intimidate is better IMO for this but Moxie is also great. Now Gyarados has only 1 weakness and anytime someone tries to use an Electric move on Gyarados, Zapdos gets a boost. Also if you use Intimidate your Pokemon get great bulk with both of them already having good base S.Defense they get an effective boost to their Defense. Because of this boost it actually safe to use D-dance on Gyarados to make him fast and have an even Higher Attack. answered Apr 11, 2012 by Speed freak edited Jun 19, 2012 by Pokemaster Gyarados is weak to rock. commented Apr 11, 2012 by Mewderator Yes, I said "has only one weakness" that weakness is rock. His electric weakness is nullified by Zapdos' Lightning-rod. commented Apr 11, 2012 by Speed freak I need better reading skills..... commented Apr 11, 2012 by Mewderator first: You can't legitly get a zapdos with lightning rod. second: If you switch into zapdos, you do get the boost except if you switch back to gyrados, you lose it. overall, I just recomend giving the gyrados a battery. commented Apr 13, 2012 by mechacharizard First: PO allows you to. Second: It says DOUBLE BATTLE. Third: You still take damage from Electric moves even with Cell Battery. commented Apr 13, 2012 by Mewderator Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote When up against a Ditto, use the move Imprison. Foe Ditto keeps using Struggle. You can also use Substitute, to not take damage from Struggle/ This will always work, for Ditto's only move is Transform. It's Hidden Ability is Impostor , which is almost same as Transform. Happy Foe-Ditto-Annoying! :) answered Apr 20, 2012 by ~Infinity Always work, unless Ditto uses imprison on you first. commented Apr 20, 2012 by Speed freak And since that Ditto user would most likely have enough of a brain to see imprison and have equal speed, you've got a 50% chance of it counter-trolling you. commented Apr 20, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote In front of Ditto, use aPokemon with the ability Pressure. This way, when Ditto uses Transform, and gets 5/n PP of our moves, we can quickly end the foe Ditto's PP supply. This makes Ditto start using Struggle faster, and the recoil finishes it off, if you do not. Good Pokemon for this : Spiritomb, which can resist most of its own attacks. Beware of Leppa Berries. Happy Ditto Annoying. :) answered Apr 20, 2012 by ~Infinity This is not a very good strategy as most Ditto run imposter. commented Apr 20, 2012 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Drought ability with Overheat, Hypnosis, Nasty Plot. Only possible on Ninetales. Overheat in the sunny weather is pretty deadly though the special attack loss is a bummer. Thats when you put them to sleep and use nasty plot to get the loss back. Now you are ready to attack full force overheat again. Energy ball is just there to cover ground and water weakness. Ill put this on the ninetales moveset question too. answered Apr 21, 2012 by Pokenubz edited Jul 25, 2012 by Pokemaster Ninetales has the ability Drought so why don't you put Solarbeam instead of Energy Ball ? commented Apr 21, 2012 by Mr.Bombastic because its not so reliable when politoad or tyranitar switch in making it a 3 turn attack commented Apr 21, 2012 by Blobyolo excatly commented Apr 21, 2012 by Pokenubz This goes in the moveset question for Ninetales. commented Apr 21, 2012 by trachy thats why i put one there to my main combo is nasty plot and overheat commented May 6, 2012 by Pokenubz Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Flatter/Swagger and Own Tempo/Safeguard To be used in double battles. Pachirisu used Flatter! Lilligant's Sp. Att. rose! Lilligant's Own Tempo prevented it from getting confused! You get a free stat boost with no harmful effects. answered May 6, 2012 by Mewderator Awesome commented Aug 2, 2012 by Hyper Flares Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Hex + Nasty Plot + Will-o-Wisp Good Candidate: Ninetales answered May 7, 2012 by Danny Mismagius for some low tier bossin. commented May 7, 2012 by Nindzya Not Bad :D commented Aug 2, 2012 by Hyper Flares Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Serperior with the trait Contrary(Unreleased)+Leaf Storm=Deadly Killer on first turn answered May 11, 2012 by DracoArceus Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote In a double battle, use a Magnezone with Magnet pull and a Kecleon. Have Kecleon skill swap his color change ability to a desired target, then follow up with Magnezone using Flash cannon. This changes its type to steel, meaning it cannot switch out because of magnet pull, it gives them a useless STAB on top of eliminating their own, it potentially gives Kecleon a great ability considering some of the stuff out there, and it also locks in a potentially dangerous pokemon. Obviously carry moves super effective against Steel to bring them down. answered Jun 8, 2012 by DarkTyphlosion OMG that is such a good idea! I need to use that in double battles every single time it is soooo going to be OP. commented Feb 24 by Pikachu172 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Have a Slow pokemon with Assurance and Confuse Ray. Use Confuse Ray to confuse opponent. Just spam Assurance and if the opponent is faster and hits itself, You get the 2x bonus with Assurance. answered Jun 27, 2012 by Faked Thrower Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote This one works real well to cripple entire teams. Involves Stealth Rock, Aggron / Tyranitar, Roar, and Toxic / Thunder Wave. Turn 1: Lead with Tyranitar / Aggron, and use Stealth Rock. Make sure he has BULK. Turn 2: Use Status inflicter. Turn 3: Use Roar. Turn 4: Return to step 2. Note: Skarmory can also do this with Whirlwind. Note: Use Aggron for the low tier, and Tyranitar is OU, unfortunately. answered Jul 5, 2012 by Nindzya edited Jul 6, 2012 by Nindzya Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Hammer Arm + Gyro Ball + Curse + Brave + Attack EVs + Golem = Destruction!!! answered Jul 6, 2012 by heracross LoL nice one :D commented Aug 2, 2012 by Hyper Flares Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote An i have a combination to lock your opponent into a status move, which will ruin those boosters. & First send in a kadabra (or someone to set up stage one)and wait for someone to use a boosting move like Calm Mind. Then use Encore to ensure they keep using Calm Mind for a while. If they dont switch you can move on to the next step. Switch into a Choice item pokemon(Band,Specs,Scarf, though the Scarf works best.) like this guy and have it use trick while the person is locked into Calm Mind. They are now stuck to not using that boosting move for the rest of the match. P.S. i used these guys as an example because they are what im using one one of my NU teams. answered Jul 7, 2012 by Pokenubz edited Aug 29, 2012 by Pokemaster Until they switch out. Maybe specs or band, since you giving them scarf will just make them faster and can pose a problem for you. Imagine giving Scizor specs?? It's murderous. commented Jul 7, 2012 by 5th of November yea it would commented Jul 7, 2012 by Pokenubz I would pair with mean look... commented Jul 8, 2012 by XtremeKiller Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Why not some crippling combos: Toxic + supersonic/confuse ray = guaranteed increased damage every turn and a possibility for damage Swagger + leer = more damage when it hurts itself because of higher attack and even more damage because of lower defense Shock wave + supersonic/confuse ray = lower the opponents speed, possibility for opposition self damage, and a high chance of not your opponent not attacking at all On any/all of these you can then leech seed the opponent to regain hp every turn while they take damage either occasionally or every turn depending on which strategy you use. Just be aware of pokemon with the ability guts when applying statuses because the attack will increase, but supersonic/confuse ray will add the possibility of that higher attack being used against them. answered Aug 1, 2012 by Chimcharizard edited Aug 1, 2012 by Chimcharizard I upvoted. commented Aug 28, 2012 by Poke'slash what the hell is this commented Sep 8, 2012 by Gʟɪɢᴜʀʀ Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote My own double battle stategy!! So, you send out electivire (with motor drive) and jolteon (with volt absorb) 1. Have Electivire use protect while Jolteon uses magnet rise. 2. Use discharge with jolteon to up electivire's speed. Then, use earthquake with Electivire and jolteon wil remain untouched. 3. repeat step 2 until magnet rise runs out. then, use step 1 Doubles only!! answered Aug 24, 2012 by Lust Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote This one kills. Magic Guard + Cosmic Power. Switch in on a wall or staller, set up Cosmic Power many and many times, and then youare invincible! Watch out for phazing... answered Sep 27, 2012 by XtremeKiller Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Use this to destroy Mono-psychic teams or any Psychic type Pokemon for that matter! (Stuff in bold is a must!) Turn a move with a Base Power of 40 into a destructive 320 power attack!!! Scizor @ Life Orb Technitian Nature: preferably Adamant EVs: preferably Atk/Spe Moves: Pursuit This will do Base Power x Tech x Life Orb x Switching outx Super effective= pwnage By switching thic guy in they automatically think "get my guy out of there" Next use Pursuit no matter what. They will either not switch out and it will do (BPxTechxLifeOrbxSE=40x1.5x1.5x2) 180. Ooor they will switch out and it will do (BPxTechxLifeOrbxSExSO=40x1.5x1.5x2x2) 320. Either way they will be at leat 2HKO if not OHKO on the first one!!! answered Sep 27, 2012 by DracoArceus edited Sep 27, 2012 by DracoArceus Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote This one Boushes xD You need a gliscor holding a toxic orb and poison heal...o ya fling too Act 1: Gliscor gets into battle with a opponent whos not poison/steel/unaffected by poison Gliscor happily absorbs toxic orbs power Gliscor:Aw its empty here you can have it Fling Opponent:Oh thx...Gets badly poisoned... Gliscor Uber Pwned xD answered Sep 27, 2012 by A Very Nice Guy Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote This one is very annoying. If you have a Pokemon like Alakazam, teach it Trick and Torment. Then give it a Choice Item. Trick will give the foe the Choice Item, meaning it can only use one move. Then use Torment, which prevents using the same move twice in a row, resulting in the opponent using Struggle until it faints! answered Oct 27, 2012 by StormBorn Nope. If they have a Choice item, Torment won't work. commented Oct 31, 2012 by XtremeKiller Oh. Thanks! I didn't know that. commented Nov 1, 2012 by StormBorn Torment works on choiced pokemon... commented Nov 1, 2012 by |SentByRavens| Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Haley told me about this one. Doubles only. Volt Absorb Lanturn with Surf. Scarfed. Water Absorb Lanturn with Discharge. Specs. answered Dec 8, 2012 by Nindzya edited Dec 8, 2012 by Nindzya Banded Lanturn? commented Dec 8, 2012 by Mewderator Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Ok I didn't see this one anywhere so here it is. Drapion. With his speed you can set up a toxic spike, with his one weakness you probably won't have him be OHKO. So you can set up another toxic spikes. You have achieved badly poisoned. Then send out a Pokemon who knows venoshock. Mine is Weezing but it can be anyone. Use Venoshock for a startling 120 base power. 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I have a very nice set up now at work with a Retina 15″, and a Thunderbolt 27″ display. But the single menu on a single monitor is not so nice. SecondBar adds a copy of the menu to the second monitor. I find SecondBar from http://blog.boastr.net/ very handy and recommend it. Thanks! Remind self to drop the fellow some quatloos.
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I seem to be getting these every couple days to a few times a day with my new Mac Pro Retina. Some claim Mountain Lion fixes the issue, and that the issue has to do with switching graphics drivers from internal to external. I don't know about that as I did not think the built in Intel driver could run my external monitor, and the issue is happening with the monitor. I also do not want to upgrade to Mountain Lion until the battery usage issues are worked out.
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The Eclipse IDE and any IDE based on it do not take full advantage yet of the Macbook Pro Retina display. The link above offers an interim fix.
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I wanted to recycle my Nokia 3650, but not to give up the memory card with any info. Turns out the Macbook Air has a slot. Let's see what happens.
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dd if=/dev/disk1 of=nokiasdcard.dd
That worked to get a mountable version, and then I wiped the card using Disk Utility.
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Our team put together some pretty interesting ideas and demo'd software every 8 weeks.
The software we wrote for the project was done under a BSD like license per DARPA requirements, and so it is probably the largest amount of software I've written that I can not only show to people outside the project, but also reuse on other projects.
Here are the program deliverables, and my team's specific contributions.
Note that I included MD5sums in the delivery, but DARPA chose not to post them that way.
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Switching on to bring in the festive spirit
5:00am Tuesday 10th December 2013 in News By Damian Fantato, Council Reporter, also covering Summertown, Jericho and North Oxford. Call me on 01865 425429
SUMMERTOWN ushered in the Christmas period with a festive celebration.
The area's Christmas lights were switched on in Banbury Road on Friday following performances by choirs and bands from local schools. And to help bring in the festive spirit mince pies and hot chocolate were provided by local branches of the Co-op and Starbucks.
Cutteslowe resident Jessica Braschi, who took her son Luca along, said: "It was a nice evening and the children gave a great cheer as the tree lights came on."
- Luca Braschi, five, and mum Jessica
A choir from Cutteslowe Primary School sang festive tunes while a brass band from Oxfordshire County Council's music service and St Edward's School's brass band provided music to make the celebrations go with a swing.
CHILDREN at Rose Hill Primary School in Oxford got the opportunity to meet Father Christmas at an festive fair.
The after-school event took place on Friday and featured a name the teddy competition, raffle cake sale and decorations made by nursery children.
But the main event was a chance for the children to meet and get a present from Father Christmas himself. About 200 people attended and helped raise more than £450 for the school's new Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
- Rose Hill Primary School's Santa with sisters Katie, four, Lilly, seven, and Amy Dallimore, three
PTA organiser and teaching assistant Alison Nicholl said: "The children absolutely loved it, and the event itself went very well.
"We organised it to bring the community together and also to raise extra money for the school."
Meanwhile, youngsters from Rose Hill Junior Youth Club in Oxford helped out at a Christmas lights and activities party.
More than 400 people from the estate attended the party at Rose Hill Community Centre in The Oval on Saturday.
- Ali Hall, Leah Carron, 10, Ella Norland, eight, and Hubert Brunszkiewicz, 11, at Rose Hill Junior Youth Club
About 80 children aged six to 11 attend the youth club twice a week and they made themselves useful at the party, handing out food and drinks and clearing up afterwards.
Youth club volunteer Ali Hall, 29, from Cowley, said: "It was a fantastic event.
"Children from the youth club were like little elves and spent the evening helping out."
HUNDREDS of people gathered together to celebrate the season at a Christmas extravaganza in Barton.
The Barton Christmas Wonderland featured a panto performance of Aladdin, Britain's Got Talent finalists Gay and Alan and carol performances.
There were also children's games provided by Thames Valley Police and Ruskin College, a grand Christmas raffle and tombola.
- Alice Surman, 12, and sister Miley, four
The party took place at Barton Neighbourhood Centre in Underhill Circus on Sunday.
About 500 people attended the event, which was in its third year and began as just a Santa's grotto attended by 200 people and organised by Barton Job Club.
Job club manager Rob Shepherd said: "It was a great evening for all of the community."
Excited Miley Surman, four, loved the event. She said: I had a brilliant time, it was fantastic."
Mum Jennie, 37, said: "It's good that they put the event on, it's really well done."
In Witney, four-year-old Daisy Drake got into the Christmas spirit when she visited reindeer outside the Woolgate shopping centre.
- Daisy and the reindeer
Daisy met the reindeer with her nanny, Abbi Harris last Tuesday.
Daisy, from Curbridge and who attends Farmhouse Nursery School in Witney, said: "It was great and I am really looking forward to Christmas."
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Boba Fett unwrapping fruit cake? Darth Vader getting fuzzy slippers from the Emperor? Ugly tie for a Tusken Raider? Must be the holidays!
From Dec. 23-Jan. 3, SPACE Channel (Canada) will host 12 Days of SPACE-Mas programming with the entire Star Wars saga and The Clone Wars movie, along with zombie movies, superhero movies, end of the world movie marathon, Torchwood: Children of Earth, Doctor Who, StarGate, Star Trek movies and more!
To get their viewers excited for their full-of-awesome programing, SPACE made this entertaining promo video featuring some of your favorite Star Wars characters getting less-than-spectacular presents. Bonus points for giving Darth Maul a bottle of Ewok After Shave!
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The fantasy section has gone very quiet of late.
Seeing as PBF is the man in the news and the most
recent big big name to fight, I thought I'd pair
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I think this is a very very intriguing match with
two classy boxers with speed, grace, elegance,
footwork, balance etc...But who wins over 12rds??
I will say PBF, due to that extra speed and harder hitting...
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I am working on a camping themed family gift basket for a Christmas Gift Exchange and have been knocking my brain trying to figure out what to add to the basket for my 16 year old cousin. As I was thinking about it I remembered what I did when camping (we and the family I am buying for are RV campers) at that age. MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! And so I came up with this baby:
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OpenOffice 3.0: Three Million Downloads in the First Week
In an announcement on his blog, the UK's OpenOffice Marketing Manager, John McCreesh, states that in the first week of its release, OpenOffice.org 3.0 registered over 3 million downloads.
Yet the project only records downloads from the so-calledBouncer website. Fact is, OpenOffice is shared through many different resources: magazine DVDs for example, or the Bittorrent network and package-source distros. So the total number of downloads is actually a lot higher.
McCreesh also explains the ratio of downloads to the different platforms. In third place came the Linux community with 220.000 downloads. Mac users came second with 320.000 and top of the download charts were Windows users with a staggering 2,4 million. Solaris came far behind with ca.16.000 downloads and even less people, about 14.000, showed an interest in the actual source-code.
The high number of downloads may be astonishing, but for McCreesh this is only the beginning. The marketing strategy of the project plans to get OpenOffice to 40% of all users by 2010. And for this to work, they had better bolster their servers. The run on the new release of the latest version caused some of them to temporarily crash.
DistributionsSure enough, few Debian users will visit, since Debian has OO.o in the repositories.
Portable version?1. Do they allow OO.o3 to be installed without Admin privileged in Wind0ze? Something what is /friendly/ to corporate ITs. Because I (and many others) hate to beg and lick a**es to have some piece of software installed. OO.o2 required Admin privileges.
2. Do they provide official portable version? Version which doesn't require installation.
How many Windoze users don't try OOo?That is 7.4% for Linux, 10.8% for Mac, and 81.2% for Windoze.
I think it is save to assume, that only about half of all Windoze users
will try out OOo. But even then the Linux number is high!
One reason why Linux is not higheris that OpenOffice.org come bundled with the Linux Distros. For example I've just installed mandriva Linux 2009.0, and it has Open Office.org 3 as the default Office package.
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This family-friendly hotel is located in Tokyo (Ginza), close to Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre, Mitsukoshi, and Hibiya Park. Also nearby are Kabuki-za Theatre and Imperial Garden Theatre.
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Ginza Nikko Hotel features a restaurant, conference/meeting rooms, and small meeting rooms.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. Event facilities include conference/meeting rooms and small meeting rooms.
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- Total number of rooms - 112
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- Breakfast fee: JPY 1500 per person (approximately)
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An Afternoon of Springtime California Freeskiing
Growing up in Telluride I've grown accustomed to being unimpressed by other ski areas. In my days competing, traveling and skiing throughout Utah and Colorado, I've almost always been disappointed, with the exception of Snowbird (haven't made it to Alta yet).
Squaw had been pretty well hyped to Jesse and me before getting here, with its panoramic lake views and inexhaustible open bowl faces. And when I asked Caleb where the best place to ski was, and he pointed in about ten different directions, I started getting some pretty high expectations.
After an afternoon of freeskiing here on Saturday, I feel that can safely add one more ski spot to my short list of non-disappointments.
The snow wasn't great, a mix of springtime slush and slick, and despite all the open and even faces, I couldn't find a steady bump line for the life of me (aside from the four on the bump course on Red Dog of course), but there is plenty to ski here, and from the looks of it, if you're willing to hike, there's some pretty easily accessible technical terrain as well.
I've never seen anything like Squaw. Right from the base you can look up into three different, open faces with lifts stretching up them: KT-22 (which tops out at 8,200 feet), Squaw Peak (8,900 feet) and Emigrant (8,700 feet). Even all that fails to mention the most impressive feature visible from the base, to looker's right; a towering formation of cartoon-like cliffs that the High Camp Cable Car climbs directly over. Word around here is that people have even started pioneering lines down the tram face through tight little chokes between the technical cliff formations. Pretty impressive to think about as you glide hundreds of feet above them in the giant tram.
And once you reach the top of the tram, elevation 8,200 feet, which also boasts a swimming pool, hot tub and skating rink in true California style, there's another towering face of Granite Chief which tops out at 9,050 feet, offering a total of 2,850 vertical feet back down to the base at 6,200 feet.
Jesse and I started our day with a ride up the Red Dog lift, which took us to the summit of Snow King, the smallest of the five peaks in total, elevation 7,550 feet. It was pretty fun skiing, a bit too much in the shade at that time of day, but good technical skiing that took us right back into the base.
We then gradually worked our way up the mountain and into more sunshine, starting with a few on KT-22, and a few more off the top of Squaw Peak. We ended the day with a ride up the tram to check out the freestyle pool party up at High Camp. It was a bit much for us, a palpable taste of California ski culture at its...finest.
In all it was a great day and enough to prove that there is skiing to be had in the U.S. outside of Telluride, but after hearing about the two feet of pow we missed over the weekend, I think I'm ready to come home.
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Completed improvement initiatives
Improvement efforts surpass $100 million in benefits
A list of improvement opportunities throughout DHS and OHA was created during the first phase of transformation in 2008. These improvement opportunities became transformation initiatives. There are approximately 100 transformation initiatives. Initiatives are grouped by agency division or transformation theme.
Thirty-five improvement initiatives have been completed resulting in benefits valued at $106.5 million as of January 14, 2011. Benefit values are tracked and updated monthly.
Summaries of completed transformation initiatives are grouped below by agency division or transformation theme. Benefit documents describing in detail how each improvement was made and the results for each completed initiative also are posted here.
Printable summary of completed improvement initiatives
Addictions and Mental Health Division - OHA
Initiative: AMH Electronic document management;
Entering a back log of 1200 paper files into an existing electronic filing system was a time-consuming task. Scanning one file could take up to four hours. Through a process improvement event, seven AMH staff streamlined the effort down to a 45-minute process per file, reducing the cycle time by 81 percent. The team set a deadline for entering the back log of files and finished two weeks early. In addition, the initiative resulted in benefits valued at $2,248.
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Initiative: Oregon State Hospital nurse hiring process
OSH cut the time it takes to hire nurses to meet goals to strengthen the consistency of patient care; cut costs for overtime and contract nurses; reduce the nursing vacancy rate to 10 percent and meet the industry standard hiring time of seven days. Six months after the initiative was implemented, OSH reduced its vacancy rate from 22.7 to 0 percent and cut the hiring process from 80 to 20 days, moving towards the seven-day goal. Benefits valued at $711,485 were realized between February 2008 and March 2009.
Initiative: Oregon State Hospital MD billing for Medicare services
OSH streamlined the billing process for services provided by doctors and covered by Medicare to ensure accurate documentation and billing. In the first month of implementation, the percentage of physicians submitting billing increased from 84 to 100 percent. The total amount billed in the first month increased 53 percent, resulting in an additional $86,934 in reimbursements through March 2010.
Initiative: Oregon State Hospital patient dietary process
OSH dramatically reduced the number of days it takes for a patient to have a dietary consultation. The wait time went from 150 days to 20 days and the dietary consult backlog was eliminated. The number of consults each dietician completes every month has on average doubled since OSH staff improved the process. This initiative resulted in benefits valued at $138,269 as of March 2010.
Initiative: Transitioning people through the adult mental health system
This initiative addressed how people who need residential services flow through the adult mental health system. The initiative focused on decreasing the amount of time a person is on a wait list for a different level of service. The initiative work concentrates acute care psychiatric hospital wait-lists for admission to Oregon State Hospital (OSH) and on the OSH "ready-to-place" list for people waiting to be discharged into community residential mental health treatment programs. A Rapid Process Improvement (RPI) event was held to create a streamlined, efficient and more cost effective approach to transitioning people through the system. The new approach is anticipated to decrease the amount of time a person is on the OSH Ready-to-Place List from an average of 197 to 30 days and decrease the percentage of people on the acute care wait list for 21 days or more from 49 to 10 percent. The improvements are expected to save $296,520 in 2011. Implementation began in September 2010 and progress is being tracked weekly.
Initiative: Adult mental health residential program vacancy payment
Originally, the Vacancy Exception Request (VER) program provided funding to cover adult mental health residential community program costs to hold a space for a resident who leaves the program temporarily for a brief acute care admission. Over time, the practice expanded to cover a variety of mental health program vacancies which decreased provider incentives to admit newly referred adults to their residential programs. AMH created a new policy, procedures and an Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) that returns the VERs practice to its original intent and encourages the development of a community placement process. The changes took place July 1, 2010 and support people in accessing the level of care and service in their communities that matches their needs. Savings of $900,000 per year are projected.
Benefit document
Children, Adults and Families Division - DHS
Initiative: Self-Sufficiency Program intake process
As the increase in demand for food assistance climbed near 30 percent, the Children, Adults and Families (CAF) Division applied Lean process improvement techniques to standardize and streamline the process of scheduling intakes for food stamps, medical and daycare benefits. Before, hungry Oregonians waited an average of nine days to receive food stamps. Today, 92 percent of clients are being seen the same or next day and customer satisfaction stands at 98 percent. With intakes being seen on average nine days sooner, purchases made with food stamps happen faster and generate an additional $1.6 million in economic activity throughout the state each month. Additionally, the changes made CAF Self-Sufficiency Programs operate more efficiently, saving staff time that equates to 26 full-time positions. This initiative also resulted in benefits valued at $1.8 million through March 2010.
Initiative: Child Welfare relative search
There are more than 6,500 children in foster care. DHS attempts to locate, contact and place children with suitable relatives to develop family connections for each child. The past relative search process was conducted differently by branches throughout the state and was in need of standardization and streamlining. Efficiencies cut the number of steps in the process from 69 to 32 (54% reduction in steps). Additionally, the improved process discontinued the use of certified mail saving $9,265 across the three pilot branches between January and May 2009. Today, relatives are identified more promptly for placement and there is higher stability for children placed in substitute care. Children move less frequently, feel more secure, and are maintaining stable relationships to achieve a higher level of permanency.
Initiative: Child Welfare discretionary funding process
Child welfare case workers can request discretionary funds to benefit children in state care or to prevent children from coming into care. Nearly $700,000 is spent statewide every month for services such as counseling, transportation, therapeutic support or education. The time required for a decision approving a discretionary expenditure varied from branch to branch but typically took eight to 14 days and involved a 20-step process. Some branches used a committee to review discretionary funds requests, reducing the time caseworkers spent working with clients directly.
Branches in Gresham, Oregon City and St. Helens participated in a pilot of the new electronic process designed to cut the discretionary payment request review cycle from between eight and 14 days to between one and two days. The new process reduced steps in the process from 20 to nine and eliminated committees in branches that previously used them. CAF estimates elimination of the committees will save the division the equivalent of approximately 270 employee hours a year, a time savings to be reinvested in face-to-face work with clients.
Benefit document
Initiative: Terminating benefits for incarcerated individuals
When a Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit recipient is incarcerated in a penal institution, the individual no longer qualifies for food and medical benefits. DHS had limited access to penal institutions to identify incarcerated clients to create a list for Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) offices to processes. Adding to the problem were workload increases in the field offices that caused processing delays. SSP staff partnered with the Office of Payment and Recovery's Automated Unit to review the process. They decided to centralize the entire process within the Automation Unit and subscribe to an electronic database which provides information on individuals incarcerated in Oregon every 30 days that can be cross-referenced with SSP databases. Purchasing the electronic database for $80 a month eliminated a manual process for identifying incarcerated individuals, saving 2,082 hours of staff time a year. In addition, benefits are inactivated earlier, saving the federal and state government a combined $2.1 million in SNAP and $1.5 million in medical benefits annually. The inactivation of benefits also anecdotally reduces the number of stolen electronic benefit cards or the fraudulent use of benefits.
Division of Medical Assistance Programs - OHA
Initiative: Third-party Liability
The Third Party Liability (TPL) Initiative focused on early identification of Medicaid clients with third-party insurance to make sure DHS is not charged when a third party should be the primary payer for a Medicaid client's care. The improvement project also sought to increase the recovery of funds DHS paid when a third party should have made the payment. The division had a backlog of nearly 11,000 new TPL referral forms which DHS made payments on while waiting for the forms to be verified and processed. By improving the process for third-party insurance identification, verification and processing, the division prevented inappropriate enrollments and payments, and eliminated the backlog of TPL referral forms. These efforts resulted in a cost savings of $27 million between September 2009 and June 2010.
Initiative: School-based Health Services videoconferencing
The School Based Health Services (SBHS) Program sought a different approach for delivering timely, consistent and reliable information to improve communication to its stakeholders. The program piloted the use of videoconferencing for informational meetings in collaboration with 16 school districts in Oregon between May and December 2008. By participating in the pilot program, school districts estimated a potential annual benefit of $35,000. Feedback from school districts that reduced staff and travel time by making the change has been overwhelmingly positive. SBHS now hosts monthly informational meetings for school districts via videoconference, increasing the consistency and interactivity of communications.
Initiative: Provider announcement conversion to electronic distribution
Before the implementation of the initiative, DMAP mailed Oregon Health Plan (OHP) Provider Announcements to providers, incurring print and postage costs. Presumably, providers would duplicate and share the provider announcement with their various departments, such as accounting staff or clinicians. Per biennium, DMAP mailed an estimated one million provider announcements about updates and changes to Oregon Health Plan's (OHP) policies, benefits, rules and procedures. When the implementation took place, DMAP was working with approximately 22,000 providers. DMAP switched to electronic distribution of OHP Provider Announcements on June 1, 2009. The financial result is an estimated biennium savings of $606,000 or an annual savings of $303,000 in print and postage costs.
Initiative: Health Service Commission Prioritized List
The Health Services Commission (HSC) Prioritized List of Health Services is the foundation for providing health services for people receiving Oregon Health Plan (OHP) benefits. The Commission prioritizes heath services, and the Legislature draws a line somewhere on the list to indicate the funded services; services above the line are funded - those below are not. The list includes more than 700 physical health, dental, chemical dependency and mental health services. Since its inception, more than 1.5 million Oregonians have been covered under the Prioritized List. The list undergoes five revisions during a biennium. In January of every other year, HSC revises the list with changes to the list of services (such as the funding line or the priorities may change), if applicable. Every year in April and October, HSC makes technical changes to the list. Implementation of all changes involves coordination between HSC and various units in DMAP.
This transformation project focused on improving the implementation of the revised list by streamlining the steps involved, clarifying roles and responsibilities and improving the understanding of the interrelationship of the units. The April 1, 2009 implementation was successful in meeting deadlines, individual units involved knew their responsibilities, and individuals followed through with their responsibilities.
Initiative: Videoconference meetings
Every month there are between 15 and 20 work group, committee or other meetings with managed care organizations (MCOs). DMAP is increasing the availability of videoconferencing during these meetings. Prior to this initiative, DMAP did not hold any videoconference meetings with MCO stakeholders. Currently, DMAP offers videoconferencing at six of these meetings. Two MCOs have chosen to participate by videoconference on a regular basis. However, interest and inquiries from other MCOs to participate continues to increase. Participants used existing videoconference applications and did not need to purchase equipment. MCOs that traditionally called into meetings have two benefits from VCON. One is a far better quality of sound, and the second is the benefit of seeing people at the meeting. This will result in higher satisfaction for DMAP's MCO stakeholders and result in more effective meetings. Cost savings are for MCOs for reducing travel requirements.
Initiative: Provider NetLink Trainings
This transformation project focused on providing electronic training instead of in-person classroom training to the billing staff of health care providers who serve Oregon Health Plan clients. This initiative changed training delivery to electronic mediums, such as NetLink, Webinar, videoconference, Web-based self-tutorials and telephone conferences. It also changed the way training materials are created and reproduced by using CDs rather than hard-copy books.
Public Health Division - OHA
Initiative: Streamlining expenditure approvals - Out-of-state travel expenditure approval process
This initiative focused on reducing cycle time by streamlining the process and minimizing rework associated with receiving approval to travel out of state. The new process was released division-wide on Nov. 3, 2008. Since then, 100 percent of approval requests are completed within five business days (previously averaged 12 business days). The reduction in cycle time has allowed the division to book 100 percent of airline tickets on line, reducing the cost per booking to $8 from $28.50. The changes were projected to save $12,936 in the first year. Additionally, by reducing processing time by 67 percent, the division saved $91,000 worth of management and staff time.
Initiative: Out-of-state birth certificate process
Applicants must provide documentation of U.S. citizenship to be eligible for Family Planning Expansion Project (FPEP), Oregon's family planning Medicaid waiver. FPEP applicants born in Oregon may request an electronic search for their birth record by submitting a Birth Information Form to their local clinic. In March 2008, the Women's and Reproductive Health Section implemented a process to purchase birth certificates for non-Oregon born citizens in an effort to provide equity of access. Since the launch of this program, Oregon has received $278,545 in federal matching funds for providing family planning services to 939 women who had been born out of Oregon but did not present a birth certificate (non-documented visits do not qualify for federal match).
Without citizenship documentation, clinics can only offer applicants a single 'one-time exception visit' that must be fully paid for with General Fund (GF). Providing birth certificates ensures that this one-time exception is resolved so that FPEP can draw the 90% federal matching funds and applicants can be made eligible for a full year of service. GF budget allocated for one-time exception visits can be freed to provide additional coverage for family planning services.
Additionally, the process enabled continued provision of services to 313 women who may have been turned away after one-time exception visit.
Initiative: Streamlining expenditure approvals - Non-standard expenditure approval process
This initiative focused on the approval process for non-standard expenditures. Before, requests typically required approval by at least three managers, lacked a standardized documentation of requirements and justification for the expenditure causing a lengthy approval process, taking an average of 16 days. This lengthy cycle time and inconsistent decision-making criteria led to over processing, staff frustration, and possible loss of grant funds. A new process was implemented in July 2009. The cycle time was reduced from 16 days to two days, on average, and error rates decreased from 15 to 8 percent. Overall staff satisfaction with the process increased from 20 to 64 percent. Additionally, savings of $19,972 were estimated during the first year of implementation with the savings coming from staff spending less time on this process.
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Initiative: Web site publishing
PHD created a streamlined and standardized process for authoring, approving and posting content to its division Web site. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Web publishing plan to clearly define roles in the process, ensure accuracy and quality of content posted to the Web and to limit possible negative exposure of the division. The initiative saved PHD $9,398.56 and 19 staff hours.
Initiative: Oregon State Public Health Laboratory specimen tracking process
The Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL) provides testing of medical specimens for local health departments, hospitals and clinics primarily for communicable diseases such as chlamydia, HIV, flu and swine flu, tuberculosis and other illnesses such as salmonella poisoning. Lab processes are being streamlined to cut the turnaround time for test results, speeding medical decision making by clinicians and helping prevent the spread of disease through faster communication of accurate information. Streamlining also provides for increased lab testing capacity and more manageable staff workloads. This initiative focused on OSPHL's specimen receipt process and involved using a courier system to speed transit time of specimens and reduce the packaging requirements for both OSPHL and its clients. As a result of this work, Oregon improved its rating on a national Emergency Health Preparedness scale, meeting eight of 10 key indicators.
Initiative: Oregon Center for Health Statistics data entry
The Oregon Center for Health Statistics improved the quality and accuracy of data submitted by providers and streamlined its processes for faster turnaround of reports and data used for programmatic research at PHD and many outside agencies. This same data also is used by the state to measure progress for Oregon Benchmark No. 39 on teen pregnancy. The average time it took to enter data dropped from an average of five days to 1.4 days and brought a $779 cost savings.
Initiative: Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ORELAP)
Oregon accredits environmental testing laboratories that meet national standards. The Oregon State Public Health Lab partners (OSPHL) with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to conduct the accreditations. Before improvements, the accreditation process was a manual process and its required reports were rarely completed within national standards for timelines, creating delays and risks to labs applying for accreditation. As a solution, the OSPHL and DEC teams partnered to create an online application, established regular OSPHL and DEQ meetings, and streamlined processes. The change generated $64,000 a year in savings and brings Oregon's accreditation process steps within national timeline standards.
Seniors and People with Disabilities Division - DHS
Initiative: Developmental Disabilities Community Housing Unit Maintenance, Repair and Payment Process
The Development Disabilities Community Housing Unit (DDCH) is responsible for annual safety inspections of Community Integration Program (CIP) homes that provide residence for people with developmental disabilities who were institutionalized in the past. CIP homes can apply to DDCH for funding for maintenance and repairs that improve the safety of residents. CIP homes usually make an average of 95 requests a month. Requests typically fall into two categories: appliance requests and standard requests that are more complex and must be evaluated by a DDCH building expert. Improvements include creation of an online application form that checks for duplications, change orders or discrepancies and automatically generates a reply to the applicant. Appliance requests will be automatically approved or denied. Standard requests will be evaluated by the DDCH building expert who now utilizes a laptop and BlackBerry to perform approvals while working in the field. The changes reduced the workload in the appliance request process by 90 percent and by 43 percent for standard requests. The changes cut the cycle time for approval and payment of appliance requests from 24 work days to five minutes and from 24 work days to four work days for standard requests. The initiative also resulted in benefits valued at $110,734 per year.
Initiative: Complex Medical Add-on
When a Medicaid client needs labor-intensive, medically necessary services beyond the range of normal nursing facility services, they can apply to the state for a Complex Medical Add-on (CMAO). The CMAO process regulates payment of an increased rate to nursing facilities to provide the additional level of care a client needs. An average of 400 individuals each month require this enhanced level of care paid for by the state and provided by nursing facilities. Before the CMAO process was improved, there was an 11-month backlog of approvals waiting to be processed which caused a delay in payments to the nursing facilities. The backlog was eliminated in six months, releasing $6 million in backlogged payments to nursing homes. In addition, the improvements brought a one-time savings of $16,800 and ongoing savings of $70,100 a year.
Initiative: Developmental Disability contract amendment process
This initiative focused on streamlining the contract amendment process for the Developmental Disabilities' Contract Administration Unit. The goal was to reduce contract amendment processing time for Financial Assistance Award (FAA) amendments. By June 2009, the FAA contract amendment cycle time improved by 60 percent, dropping from 57 to 23 days. The number of steps in the process dropped from 21 to 14 and the number of decisions made in the process dropped from 11 to five. The improvements helped the unit avoid $90,500 in costs.
Initiative: Corrective Action Unit investigative report processing time
The Corrective Action Unit processes investigative reports on long-term care facilities that fail to meet minimum health and safety requirements. The reports are submitted by Client Care Monitoring Units and local field offices. The unit processes an average of 250 reports a month but struggled to complete processing within a 60-day requirement. The team aimed to produce notices of findings, letters of determinations and civil penalties, on average, within 45 days of receipt of a completed investigatory report. Following a transformation event, the CAU team sped their processing time to meet their target by cutting steps from 21 to nine, a 57 percent reduction. This initiative generated benefits valued at $193,803.
Initiative: Presumptive Medical Disability Determination team process
This initiative focused on streamlining the financial eligibility process, which includes presumptive Medicaid determinations. A presumptive Medicaid determination is required when an individual applies for medical assistance (Medicaid) stating they have a disability, no medical coverage and will be unable to generate income by way of working for 12 months or longer. Referrals for a determination are sent by local offices. Because of the need to interpret extensive medical information, these determinations are completed by Disability Analysts within the Presumptive Medicaid Disability Determination Team (PMDDT). PMDDT reviews all available documentation, requests further information or medical exams and determines if the person is eligible for Medicaid coverage due to a disabling condition. Since the individual needs continuing medical care, the sooner a decision can be made the sooner a person will receive, or not receive, medical coverage. Cost savings from this event are from the timeliness of clients obtaining medical coverage or care and are not tracked at this time. Prior to transformation, PMDDT averaged 83 days to make a disability determination with 38 percent of those taking over 90 days to complete. Implementation of a new process is increasing the number of completed determinations made within 90 days. As of April 2009 the average has risen from 62 to 65 percent and is expected to continue to improve as training is provided in field offices.
Initiative: Nursing Facilities diversion and transition
This initiative was launched to reduce the number of Medicaid clients unnecessarily entering expensive nursing facilities for long-term care. As a result of the initiative, more than 1,200 people have been transitioned to more appropriate care settings with 41 percent remaining in their own homes. SPD projects a 12-month savings of $17.6 million from this effort and improved client satisfaction by addressing the preference of most Oregon seniors to live outside of nursing facilities.
Administrative Services Division | DHS and OHA Shared Services
Initiative: Office of Payment for Accuracy and Recovery transformation pilot
This transformation pilot project was conducted between January and December 2007. It focused on streamlining key areas of the agency's financial operations. By using Lean techniques to define, analyze and improve processes, significant results were quickly realized. In the first 12 months, benefits valued at $650,000 were realized. The work also enabled the agency to submit its budget five months earlier than the past biennium and contributed to the department achieving the Oregon State Controller's Division Gold Star Award for Financial Reporting. The success of the pilot prompted development of the Transformation Initiative for the entire agency.
Initiative: Office of Information Services (OIS) service desk
This initiative was focused on changing from what was essentially the information technology team's switchboard to a true service desk serving as the single point of contact for all technical issues experienced by DHS staff. The team aimed to increase the rate of resolution in the first contact staff members have with the service desk. Results include a 90 percent increase in volume and a 22 percent improvement in the timeliness of the team's resolution of customer service desk tickets. The cost of a service desk ticket dropped 22 percent or by $7.70. The initiative resulted in benefits valued at $719,616 in its first year.
Initiative: Expenditure report automated download process
The purpose of this initiative was to develop a more robust process for production and maintenance, and analysis, of the analytical expenditure reports for programs within the Addictions and Mental Health Division. The reports are created and analyzed by the Budget Planning and Analysis (BPA) staff and are distributed to management, program managers, department heads and others. The old process required two analysts approximately 40 hours each month to complete the maintenance phase and approximately 10 hours each month to complete the analytical research phase. The new process has been automated and customers are receiving timely budget information and budget staff are spending more time doing analyst work. The improvement resulted in annual savings of $47,266 for the period February 2008 to February 2009.
Initiative: Wireless communication devices - cell phones
This initiative focused on the effective use of cell phones by eliminating unnecessary features like data and text messaging; changing plans and cancelling devices not actively used. It also involved decentralizing the purchase of devices to make sure business managers have appropriately sized packages that meet their business needs. Policies were updated and a new decentralized cell phone payment process put in place with a monthly bill review by business managers and quarterly analysis of vendor reports. Cost savings were estimated at $45,739.
Initiative: Wireless communication devices - BlackBerry
The purchase, review and payment process for BlackBerry devices was decentralized to ensure business managers can access billing and usage information to manage device usage and budgets. Rate plans were bundled based on a shared pool of minutes of employee assigned devices and BlackBerry devices not used regularly were deactivated. A pilot was conducted to disconnect 90 landline phones for employees who also had BlackBerry devices. Cost savings are estimated at $199,739 annually.
Initiative: Stockless Office Supply Program
In October 2008 the Salem Human Services Building switched from stocking centralized office supply rooms to a "stockless purchasing program." The Salem Parkway Building did the same in January 2009. Stockless purchasing means ordering items "just in time," or when needed, rather than maintaining an inventory. As a result of this change, 25 hours of staff time are saved each month, supply rooms have been turned into much-needed meeting rooms and there is an annual savings of $90,324 in office supply costs.
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Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's remains in a Swedish jail but is no longer detained with restrictions and can communicate with others without the consent of a prosecutor.
Svartholm Warg's detention was lifted on Friday by prosecutor Henrik Olin. "Today I have decided to withdraw the detention. So from around 10 pm today he is not detained anymore," said Olin. However, Svartholm Warg must serve a prison sentence for his role in creating the notorious illegal file-sharing site, so he's not free, Olin added.
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Svartholm Warg will be transferred to another prison, where he is allowed to have contact with other inmates and will be able to communicate more freely.
The investigation continues and Svartholm Warg has not yet been charged with any crimes, Olin said. "Nothing about that has changed," he said, adding that the restrictions on communications were lifted because the most acute risks of Svartholm Warg communicating with the outside world are now controlled.
Olin said he hopes to reach a decision about whether to charge Svartholm Warg by the end of January or the beginning of February. Svartholm Warg will finish serving the Pirate Bay sentence in mid-May, according to Olin.
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Some of the best in Jacksonville – We went to the Sushi House for the first time today and were impressed. This is one of the best sushi restaurants we have been to in Jacksonville. The rolls are not huge but they have a lot of meat to compensate. Soup, 3 rolls plus a couple pieces of nigiri were plenty for two people at lunch. The miso soup was really good, as was the crab rangoon (which I normally dont even like). We had white tuna nigiri, Rainbow roll, spicy tuna roll, and the Black Dragon roll-you will not go wrong with any of them. The prices (especially for the nigiri) were very reasonable as well.
The service was very fast and friendly. With how attentive everyone was, you can tell that they care about their customers. They brought food out as we finished each course almost as though they were watching how fast we ate so they could time when to bring out the next plate. Not to be redundant, but they truly did a good job making us feel welcome and comfortable.
The atmosphere was good as well. We have not seen many restaurants down here have good food and appropriate atmosphere. I couldn't believe I was in a restaurant in Jacksonville that actually had the correct decor and music together (most places seem to not connect these dots for some reason). It is also nice that they are close to where we live relative to the other sushi places.
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If the quality of the Sushi and service wasn't enough, they are reasonably priced. My favorites are the Atlantic Roll, Dynamite Roll, & Rock n' Roll. The rolls are big and filling and always fresh. My wife gets here California Rolls and they have always been fresh. Their Gyoza and Edamame are excellent too. The kids eat those with us as well as their Chicken Tempura. We always leave satisfied and full.
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shoreLINES is a quarterly newsletter intended to keep our partners and stakeholders informed about Parks Canada's activities and heritage places in Northern Ontario. (Winter 2014, PDF 0.8 Mb)
Have you ever touched a cloud? Thanks to my summer job with Parks Canada I have, and I got to explore some of the natural treasures along Lake Superior's north shore. The opportunity presented itself while I was working at the Sault Ste. Marie Canal when I was asked to participate in a summer photo shoot for the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area.
You may be tired of the white stuff and the nippy temperatures. Let us inspire you with some amazing winter images featuring locations and activities around the proposed Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area.
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As the biggest national park in Ontario, Pukaskwa doesn't face the same challenges as its more southern relatives. Yet, staff at the park regularly monitors a dozen or so indicators to ensure its boreal and coastal environments stay healthy and strong. Starting in fall 2013 Pukaskwa is getting help from satellites orbiting our blue planet. ... read more about lake monitoring at Pukaskwa!
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Hi! My name is Parka. I was born in Wood Buffalo National Park, home of the world's largest beaver dam. One day, a passing gray jay stopped to tell me about the wonders to be found in Parks Canada places all across the country.
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